Thanks for your input. The langshan has been in her nest for five days, she has stopped laying eggs and she does those two broody behaviors exactly like you describe. Today i took her out of the nest and placed her in a crate with a mesh bottom and no bedding and raised off the floor on bricks...
update: Still need Help.
So I have seperated the bossy barred rock from the flock she is out of site from the others. at closer inspection quite a few of my other hens have been picked on and feathers pulled out some worse than others. So the bossy one has been removed from the picture for now...
update: Still need Help.
So I have seperated the bossy barred rock from the flock she is out of site from the others. at closer inspection quite a few of my other hens have been picked on and feathers pulled out some worse than others. So the bossy one has been removed from the picture for now...
i have seperated miss bossy, but the langsan is still in the nesting box. I am thinking broody because other hens are climbing in her nest and laying eggs and the langshan just collects and sits on them.
Fair Warning… there is a lot going on here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My flock consists of 9 hens (1 RIR, 2 Barred Rocks, 2 Ameraucana, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Blue Langshan, 1 Buff Brahma , and 1 Dark Brahma, all 33 weeks old. All but the Dark Brahma are laying. 1 Barred Rock is the...